Mass. firefighters pull deer from well

Monday

TRURO, Mass. (AP) — Truro firefighters aren't trained to rescue nervous animals from wells, so when they got a call that a deer had fallen down a 12-foot well in town, they had to improvise.

Rescuers tried several times to snare the 120-pound doe with a rope on Sunday, but the scared animal was bucking and turning in circles at the bottom of the well.

It turns out all that was needed was a little TLC.

Truro fire Capt. Shannon Corea descended down into the well and put her arm around the deer to calm it down. Corea tells the Cape Cod Times (http://bit.ly/zBROt5) the animal seemed to sense she was trying to help.

Firefighters pulled the deer out and the tired doe bolted into the woods when the harness was removed.

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Information from: Cape Cod Times, http://www.capecodonline.com

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